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Well, it's a good thing that BLUE (which stands for Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics) Microphones has such a good sense of humour because when I first received their latest product, The Ball, for review my initial reaction was laughter. Then I felt a bit guilty. I shouldn't really be laughing at this microphone. The manufacturer has obviously spent a great deal of time and research on the microphone and like the old saying goes, "Never judge a book by its cover."
After getting over my initial response, I started to read the product information and it became obvious that the people at BLUE Microphones expect people to laugh at first. Proof of this is that the product brochure includes fictitious reviews by Socrates and Leonardo da Vinci. So, I didn't feel so bad after all.
Now that you know my first reaction, let's get down to the nitty gritty. The Ball is a phantom powered, dynamic cardioid microphone (more on this later) and it is in the shape of a ball about the size of a five-pin bowling ball (hence the laughter).
BLUE has built a great reputation over the past few years for making some of the most unique condenser and tube condenser microphones on the market. They are best known for The Bottle, which they introduced in 1997, and its less expensive predecessor The Baby Bottle, introduced in 2001. The Ball is BLUE's first attempt at designing a dynamic microphone and in typical BLUE fashion they have...